Publications by topic

Ramón Cáceres

There are more than 15,000 citations to this body of work and my h-index is 49 (according to Google Scholar).

Topics

Online privacy

"Zanzibar: Google's Consistent, Global Authorization System", R. Pang, R. Cáceres, M. Burrows, Z. Chen, P. Dave, N. Germer, A. Golynski, K. Graney, N. Kang, L. Kissner, J. L. Korn, A. Parmar, C. D. Richards, and M. Wang, 2019 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), July 2019.
Confidant: Protecting OSN Data without Locking it Up, D. Liu, A. Shakimov, R. Cáceres, A. Varshavsky, and L. P. Cox, ACM/IFIP/USENIX 12th International Middleware Conference (Middleware), December 2011.
Vis-à-Vis: Privacy-Preserving Online Social Networking via Virtual Individual Servers, A. Shakimov, H. Lim, R. Cáceres, L. P. Cox, K. Li, D. Liu, and A. Varshavsky, International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), January 2011.
Virtual Individual Servers as Privacy-Preserving Proxies for Mobile Devices, R. Cáceres, L. Cox, H. Lim, A. Shakimov, and A. Varshavsky, 1st ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networking, Systems, and Applications on Mobile Handhelds (MobiHeld), August 2009.
Privacy, Cost, and Availability Tradeoffs in Decentralized OSNs, A. Shakimov, A. Varshavsky, L. Cox and R. Cáceres, 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN), August 2009.

Human mobility

Earthquakes, Hurricanes, and Mobile Communication Patterns in the New York Metro Area: Collective Behavior during Extreme Events, C. Small, R. Becker, R. Cáceres, and S. Urbanek, arXiv:1504.02463 [cs.SI], April 2015. Also presented at NetMob 2015.
Spatiotemporal Disruption of Mobile Communication Patterns in the New York Metro Area by Hurricane Irene, C. Small, R. Becker, R. Cáceres, and S. Urbanek, 31st AMS Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, March 2014.
DP-WHERE: Differentially Private Modeling of Human Mobility, D. J. Mir, S. Isaacman, R. Cáceres, M. Martonosi, and R. N. Wright, IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), October 2013.
Human Mobility Characterization from Cellular Network Data, R. Becker, R. Cáceres, K. Hanson, S. Isaacman, J. M. Loh, M. Martonosi, J. Rowland, S. Urbanek, A. Varshavsky, and C. Volinsky, Communications of the ACM (CACM), Vol. 56, No. 1, January 2013.
Human Mobility Modeling at Metropolitan Scales, S. Isaacman, R. Becker, R. Cáceres, M. Martonosi, J. Rowland, A. Varshavsky, and W. Willinger, 10th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), June 2012.
Exploring the Use of Urban Greenspace through Cellular Network Activity, R. Cáceres, J. Rowland, C. Small, and S. Urbanek, 2nd Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA), June 2012.
Route Classification Using Cellular Handoff Patterns, R. Becker, R. Cáceres, K. Hanson, J. M. Loh, S. Urbanek, A. Varshavsky, and C. Volinsky, 13th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), September 2011.
A Tale of One City: Using Cellular Network Data for Urban Planning, R. Becker, R. Cáceres, K. Hanson, J. M. Loh, S. Urbanek, A. Varshavsky, and C. Volinsky, IEEE Pervasive Computing, special issue on Large-Scale Opportunistic Sensing, Vol. 10, No. 4, October-December 2011.
Identifying Important Places in People's Lives from Cellular Network Data, S. Isaacman, R. Becker, R. Cáceres, S. Kobourov, M. Martonosi, J. Rowland, and A. Varshavsky, 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive), June 2011.
Clustering Anonymized Mobile Call Detail Records to Find Usage Groups, R. Becker, R. Cáceres, K. Hanson, J. M. Loh, S. Urbanek, A. Varshavsky, and C. Volinsky, 1st Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA), June 2011.
Ranges of Human Mobility in Los Angeles and New York, S. Isaacman, R. Becker, R. Cáceres, S. Kobourov, M. Martonosi, J. Rowland, and A. Varshavsky, 8th International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS), March 2011.
A Tale of Two Cities, S. Isaacman, R. Becker, R. Cáceres, S. Kobourov, J. Rowland, and A. Varshavsky, 11th ACM Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), February 2010.

Mobile computing

Towards Synchronization of Live Virtual Machines among Mobile Devices, J. Bickford and R. Cáceres, 14th ACM Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), February 2013.
mClouds: Computing on Clouds of Mobile Devices, E. Miluzzo, R. Cáceres, Y.-F. Chen, 3rd ACM Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing and Services (MCS), June 2012.
The Case for VM-based Cloudlets in Mobile Computing, M. Satyanarayanan, P. Bahl, R. Cáceres, and N. Davies, IEEE Pervasive Computing, special issue on Virtual Machines, Vol. 8, No. 4, October-December 2009. (ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Award, 2022. Over 4,000 citations.).
Trustworthy and Personalized Computing on Public Kiosks, S. Garriss, R. Cáceres, S. Berger, R. Sailer, L. van Doorn and X. Zhang, 6th ACM/USENIX International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), June 2008.
Towards Trustworthy Kiosk Computing, S. Garriss, R. Cáceres, S. Berger, R. Sailer, L. van Doorn and X. Zhang, 8th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), February 2007.
Pegboard: A Framework for Developing Mobile Applications, D. Soroker, R. Cáceres, D. Dig, A. Schade, S. Spraragen and A. Tiwari, 4th ACM/USENIX International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), June 2006.
Trusted Mobile Computing, R. Cáceres and R. Sailer, IFIP Workshop on Security and Privacy in Mobile and Wireless Networks, May 2006.
Reincarnating PCs with Portable SoulPads, R. Cáceres, C. Carter, C. Narayanaswami and M. Raghunath, 3rd ACM/USENIX International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), June 2005. (ACM/USENIX MobiSys Best Paper Award, 2005.)
Eat, Shop, and Play: Mobile Computing Technology at Vindigo, R. Cáceres, J. Donham, B. Fitterman, D. Joerg, M. Smith and T. Vetter, IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 9, No. 1, February 2002.
Storage Alternatives for Mobile Computers, F. Douglis, R. Cáceres, F. Kaashoek, K. Li, B. Marsh and J. Tauber, 1st USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), November 1994 (also in Mobile Computing, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996).
Operating System Implications of Solid-State Mobile Computers, R. Cáceres, F. Douglis, K. Li and B. Marsh, 4th IEEE Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems (WWOS), October 1993.
Systems Issues in Mobile Computing, B. Marsh, F. Douglis and R. Cáceres, Technical Report MITL-TR-50-93, Matsushita Information Technology Lab, February 1993.

Mobile networking

Obtaining In-Context Measurements of Cellular Network Performance, A. Gember, A. Akella, J. Pang, A. Varshavsky, and R. Cáceres, 2012 Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), November 2012.
Predicting Handoffs in 3G Networks, U. Javed, D. Han, R. Cáceres, J. Pang, S. Seshan, and A. Varshavsky, 3rd ACM Workshop on Networking, Systems, and Applications on Mobile Handhelds (MobiHeld), October 2011.
Fast and Scalable Wireless Handoffs in Support of Mobile Internet Audio, R. Cáceres and V. N. Padmanabhan, ACM Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications, Vol. 3, No. 4, December 1998.
Fast and Scalable Handoffs for Wireless Internetworks, R. Cáceres and V. N. Padmanabhan, ACM MobiCom '96, November 1996.
Improving the Performance of Reliable Transport Protocols in Mobile Computing Environments, R. Cáceres and L. Iftode, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 13, No. 5, June 1995 (also in Mobile Computing, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996).
The Effects of Mobility on Reliable Transport Protocols, R. Cáceres and L. Iftode, 14th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), June 1994.

Ubiquitous computing

Ubicomp Systems at 20: Progress, Opportunities, and Challenges, R. Cáceres and A. Friday, IEEE Pervasive Computing, special issue on Weiser's Vision: 20 Years Later, Vol. 11, No. 1, January-March 2012.
Deriving Long-Term Value from Context-Aware Computing, G. Banavar, J. Black, R. Cáceres, M. Ebling, E. Stern and J. Kannry, Information Systems Management, special issue on Ubiquitous Computing, Vol. 22, No. 4, Fall 2005.

Secure virtualization

Security for the Cloud Infrastructure: Trusted Virtual Data Center Implementation, S. Berger, R. Cáceres, K. Goldman, D. Pendarakis, R. Perez, J. R. Rao, E. Rom, R. Sailer, W. Schildhauer, D. Srinivasan, S. Tal and E. Valdez, IBM Journal of Research and Development, Vol. 53, No. 4, July-August 2009.
TVDc: Managing Security in the Trusted Virtual Data Center, S. Berger, R. Cáceres, D. Pendarakis, R. Perez, R. Sailer, W. Schildhauer, D. Srinivasan and R. Valdez, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, January 2008.
A Layered Approach to Simplified Access Control in Virtualized Systems, B. D. Payne, R. Sailer, R. Cáceres, R. Perez and W. Lee, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Vol. 41, No. 4, July 2007.
Shamon: A System for Distributed Mandatory Access Control, J. McCune, T. Jaeger, S. Berger, R. Cáceres and R. Sailer, 22nd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2006.
vTPM: Virtualizing the Trusted Platform Module, S. Berger, R. Cáceres, K. Goldman, R. Perez, R. Sailer and L. van Doorn, 15th USENIX Security Symposium, July 2006.
Shame on Trust in Distributed Systems, T. Jaeger, P. McDaniel, L. St. Clair, R. Cáceres and R. Sailer, USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec), July 2006.
Building a MAC-Based Security Architecture for the Xen Open-Source Hypervisor, R. Sailer, E. Valdez, T. Jaeger, R. Cáceres, R. Perez, S. Berger, J. L. Griffin and L. van Doorn, 21st Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2005.
Trusted Virtual Domains: Toward Secure Distributed Services, J. L. Griffin, T. Jaeger, R. Perez, R. Sailer, L. van Doorn. and R. Cáceres, 1st IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep), June 2005.

Internet traffic measurement and characterization

mmdump: A Tool for Monitoring Internet Multimedia Traffic, J. van der Merwe, R. Cáceres, Y. Chu and C. J. Sreenan, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), Vol. 30, No. 5, October 2000.
Measurement and Analysis of IP Network Usage and Behavior, R. Cáceres, N. G. Duffield, A. Feldmann, J. Friedmann, A. Greenberg, R. Greer, T. Johnson, C. Kalmanek, B. Krishnamurthy, D. Lavelle, P. Mishra, K. K. Ramakrishnan, J. Rexford, F. True and J. E. van der Merwe, IEEE Communications, Vol. 38, No. 5, May 2000.
Using the AT&T Labs PacketScope for Internet Measurement, Design, and Performance Analysis, N. Anerousis, R. Cáceres, N. Duffield, A. Feldmann, A. Greenberg, C. Kalmanek, P. Mishra, K.K. Ramakrishnan, J. Rexford, AT&T Services and Infrastructure Performance Symposium, November 1997.
An Empirical Workload Model for Driving Wide-Area TCP/IP Network Simulations, P. Danzig, S. Jamin, R. Cáceres, D. Mitzel and D. Estrin, Wiley Journal of Internetworking: Research and Experience, Vol. 3, No. 1, March 1992.
Characteristics of Wide-Area TCP/IP Conversations, R. Cáceres, P. Danzig, S. Jamin and D. Mitzel, ACM Conference on Computer Communications (SIGCOMM), September 1991.
Measurements of Wide-Area Internet Traffic, R. Cáceres, Technical Report UCB/CSD 89/550, University of California at Berkeley, December 1989.

Multicast-based inference of network characteristics

Impromptu Measurement Infrastructures using RTP, R. Cáceres, N. G. Duffield and T. Friedman, IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (Infocom), June 2002.
The Use of End-to-End Multicast Measurements for Characterizing Internal Network Behavior, A. Adams, T. Bu, R. Cáceres, N. G. Duffield, T. Friedman, J. Horowitz, F. Lo Presti, S. B. Moon, V. Paxson and D. Towsley, IEEE Communications, Vol. 38, No. 5, May 2000.
Inference of Internal Loss Rates in the MBone, R. Cáceres, N. G. Duffield, S. B. Moon and D. Towsley, IEEE/ISOC Global Internet '99, December 1999.
Loss-based Inference of Multicast Network Topology, R. Cáceres, N. G. Duffield, J. Horowitz, F. Lo Presti, and D. Towsley, 1999 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 1999.
Multicast-Based Inference of Network-Internal Loss Characteristics, R. Cáceres, N. G. Duffield, J. Horowitz and D. Towsley, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 45, No. 7, November 1999.
Multicast-Based Inference of Network-Internal Characteristics: Accuracy of Packet Loss Estimation, R. Cáceres, N. G. Duffield, J. Horowitz, D. Towsley and T. Bu, IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (Infocom), March 1999.
Statistical Inference for Internal Link Parameters in a Network, R. Cáceres, N. G. Duffield, J. Horowitz and D. Towsley, American Statistical Association Annual Meeting, August 1998.

Web performance

Performance of Web Proxy Caching in Heterogeneous Bandwidth Environments, A. Feldmann, R. Cáceres, F. Douglis, G. Glass and M. Rabinovich, IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (Infocom), March 1999.
Efficient Policies for Carrying Web Traffic over Flow-Switched Networks, A. Feldmann, J. Rexford and R. Cáceres, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1998.
HTTP 1.0 Logs Considered Harmful, R. Cáceres, B. Krishnamurthy and J. Rexford, W3C Web Characterization Group Workshop, November 1998.
Web Proxy Caching: The Devil is in the Details, R. Cáceres, F. Douglis, A. Feldmann, G. Glass and M. Rabinovich, ACM SIGMETRICS Workshop on Internet Server Performance, June 1998.
Reducing Overhead in Flow-Switched Networks: An Empirical Study of Web Traffic, A. Feldmann, J. Rexford and R. Cáceres, IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (Infocom), March 1998.

IP over ATM networks

Multiplexing TCP Traffic over Wide-Area ATM Networks, R. Cáceres, Technical Report MITL-TR-99-93, Matsushita Information Technology Lab, March 1993.
Multiplexing Traffic at the Entrance to Wide-Area Networks, R. Cáceres, Ph.D. Dissertation, Technical Report UCB/CSD 92/717, University of California at Berkeley, December 1992.
Efficiency of Asynchronous Transfer Mode Networks in Transporting Wide-Area Data Traffic, R. Cáceres, Technical Report TR-91-043, International Computer Science Institute, July 1991.

Internet protocols

RTP Control Protocol Extended Reports, T. Friedman, R. Cáceres and A. Clark (editors), RFC 3611, Proposed Standard, Internet Engineering Task Force, November 2003.
IP to X.25 Protocol Interface Issues, R. Cáceres, CommUNIXations, Vol. 7, No. 3, May/June 1987.
The Pyramid IP to X.25 Protocol Interface: Merging DDN and PDN Approaches, R. Cáceres, Uniforum 1987, January 1987.

Distributed computing

The Administration of Distributed Computations in a Networked Environment, L. F. Cabrera, S. Sechrest and R. Cáceres, 6th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), May 1986.
Process Control in a Distributed Berkeley Unix Environment, R. Cáceres, M.S. Report, Technical Report UCB/CSD 84/211, University of California at Berkeley, December 1984.

Miscellaneous

Expanding the Pipeline: The CRA-WP 2023 IDEALS Workshop, P. Lopez, A. Howard, L. Clarke, and R. Cáceres, Computing Research News, Vol. 35, No. 5, May 2023.
Pervasive Computing at the Edge, P. Bahl, R. Cáceres, N. Davies, and R. Want, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 19, No. 4, October-December 2020.
Spatial Computing - 2020: The Next Transformative Technology, Community Whitepaper resulting from the 2012 CCC Spatial Computing 2020 Workshop, July 2013.
Information and Communication Technologies for Development, R. Cáceres, E. Belding, T. Parikh, and L. Subramanian, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 11, No. 3, July-September 2012.
Bar Codes Everywhere You Look, M. Ebling and R. Cáceres, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 9, No. 2, April-June 2010.
Gaming and Augmented Reality Come to Location-Based Services, R. Cáceres and M. Ebling, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 9, No. 1, January-March 2010.
Digest of Proceedings: 2nd IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, R. Cáceres, Bulletin of the IEEE Technical Committee on the Internet, November 1999.
Separating Abstraction from Implementation in Communication Network Design, R. Cáceres, Technical Report TR-89-026, International Computer Science Institute, May 1989.

Last updated 21 May 2023 by Ramón Cáceres